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david.chen
be5db977ea Remove MAX when initializing arc_c_max
The MAX when initializing arc_c_max doesn't make any sense because
it hasn't been set anywhere before. Though, arc_c_max should be
implicitly set to zero when initializing arc_stats, so the MAX
doesn't make any difference.

The MAX was mistakenly left if place when the Illumos default
values were changed for Linux.

Signed-off-by: david.chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1941
2013-12-10 10:05:40 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens
e8b96c6007 Illumos #4045 write throttle & i/o scheduler performance work
4045 zfs write throttle & i/o scheduler performance work

1. The ZFS i/o scheduler (vdev_queue.c) now divides i/os into 5 classes: sync
read, sync write, async read, async write, and scrub/resilver.  The scheduler
issues a number of concurrent i/os from each class to the device.  Once a class
has been selected, an i/o is selected from this class using either an elevator
algorithem (async, scrub classes) or FIFO (sync classes).  The number of
concurrent async write i/os is tuned dynamically based on i/o load, to achieve
good sync i/o latency when there is not a high load of writes, and good write
throughput when there is.  See the block comment in vdev_queue.c (reproduced
below) for more details.

2. The write throttle (dsl_pool_tempreserve_space() and
txg_constrain_throughput()) is rewritten to produce much more consistent delays
when under constant load.  The new write throttle is based on the amount of
dirty data, rather than guesses about future performance of the system.  When
there is a lot of dirty data, each transaction (e.g. write() syscall) will be
delayed by the same small amount.  This eliminates the "brick wall of wait"
that the old write throttle could hit, causing all transactions to wait several
seconds until the next txg opens.  One of the keys to the new write throttle is
decrementing the amount of dirty data as i/o completes, rather than at the end
of spa_sync().  Note that the write throttle is only applied once the i/o
scheduler is issuing the maximum number of outstanding async writes.  See the
block comments in dsl_pool.c and above dmu_tx_delay() (reproduced below) for
more details.

This diff has several other effects, including:

 * the commonly-tuned global variable zfs_vdev_max_pending has been removed;
use per-class zfs_vdev_*_max_active values or zfs_vdev_max_active instead.

 * the size of each txg (meaning the amount of dirty data written, and thus the
time it takes to write out) is now controlled differently.  There is no longer
an explicit time goal; the primary determinant is amount of dirty data.
Systems that are under light or medium load will now often see that a txg is
always syncing, but the impact to performance (e.g. read latency) is minimal.
Tune zfs_dirty_data_max and zfs_dirty_data_sync to control this.

 * zio_taskq_batch_pct = 75 -- Only use 75% of all CPUs for compression,
checksum, etc.  This improves latency by not allowing these CPU-intensive tasks
to consume all CPU (on machines with at least 4 CPU's; the percentage is
rounded up).

--matt

APPENDIX: problems with the current i/o scheduler

The current ZFS i/o scheduler (vdev_queue.c) is deadline based.  The problem
with this is that if there are always i/os pending, then certain classes of
i/os can see very long delays.

For example, if there are always synchronous reads outstanding, then no async
writes will be serviced until they become "past due".  One symptom of this
situation is that each pass of the txg sync takes at least several seconds
(typically 3 seconds).

If many i/os become "past due" (their deadline is in the past), then we must
service all of these overdue i/os before any new i/os.  This happens when we
enqueue a batch of async writes for the txg sync, with deadlines 2.5 seconds in
the future.  If we can't complete all the i/os in 2.5 seconds (e.g. because
there were always reads pending), then these i/os will become past due.  Now we
must service all the "async" writes (which could be hundreds of megabytes)
before we service any reads, introducing considerable latency to synchronous
i/os (reads or ZIL writes).

Notes on porting to ZFS on Linux:

- zio_t gained new members io_physdone and io_phys_children.  Because
  object caches in the Linux port call the constructor only once at
  allocation time, objects may contain residual data when retrieved
  from the cache. Therefore zio_create() was updated to zero out the two
  new fields.

- vdev_mirror_pending() relied on the depth of the per-vdev pending queue
  (vq->vq_pending_tree) to select the least-busy leaf vdev to read from.
  This tree has been replaced by vq->vq_active_tree which is now used
  for the same purpose.

- vdev_queue_init() used the value of zfs_vdev_max_pending to determine
  the number of vdev I/O buffers to pre-allocate.  That global no longer
  exists, so we instead use the sum of the *_max_active values for each of
  the five I/O classes described above.

- The Illumos implementation of dmu_tx_delay() delays a transaction by
  sleeping in condition variable embedded in the thread
  (curthread->t_delay_cv).  We do not have an equivalent CV to use in
  Linux, so this change replaced the delay logic with a wrapper called
  zfs_sleep_until(). This wrapper could be adopted upstream and in other
  downstream ports to abstract away operating system-specific delay logic.

- These tunables are added as module parameters, and descriptions added
  to the zfs-module-parameters.5 man page.

  spa_asize_inflation
  zfs_deadman_synctime_ms
  zfs_vdev_max_active
  zfs_vdev_async_write_active_min_dirty_percent
  zfs_vdev_async_write_active_max_dirty_percent
  zfs_vdev_async_read_max_active
  zfs_vdev_async_read_min_active
  zfs_vdev_async_write_max_active
  zfs_vdev_async_write_min_active
  zfs_vdev_scrub_max_active
  zfs_vdev_scrub_min_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_read_max_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_read_min_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_write_max_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_write_min_active
  zfs_dirty_data_max_percent
  zfs_delay_min_dirty_percent
  zfs_dirty_data_max_max_percent
  zfs_dirty_data_max
  zfs_dirty_data_max_max
  zfs_dirty_data_sync
  zfs_delay_scale

  The latter four have type unsigned long, whereas they are uint64_t in
  Illumos.  This accommodates Linux's module_param() supported types, but
  means they may overflow on 32-bit architectures.

  The values zfs_dirty_data_max and zfs_dirty_data_max_max are the most
  likely to overflow on 32-bit systems, since they express physical RAM
  sizes in bytes.  In fact, Illumos initializes zfs_dirty_data_max_max to
  2^32 which does overflow. To resolve that, this port instead initializes
  it in arc_init() to 25% of physical RAM, and adds the tunable
  zfs_dirty_data_max_max_percent to override that percentage.  While this
  solution doesn't completely avoid the overflow issue, it should be a
  reasonable default for most systems, and the minority of affected
  systems can work around the issue by overriding the defaults.

- Fixed reversed logic in comment above zfs_delay_scale declaration.

- Clarified comments in vdev_queue.c regarding when per-queue minimums take
  effect.

- Replaced dmu_tx_write_limit in the dmu_tx kstat file
  with dmu_tx_dirty_delay and dmu_tx_dirty_over_max.  The first counts
  how many times a transaction has been delayed because the pool dirty
  data has exceeded zfs_delay_min_dirty_percent.  The latter counts how
  many times the pool dirty data has exceeded zfs_dirty_data_max (which
  we expect to never happen).

- The original patch would have regressed the bug fixed in
  zfsonlinux/zfs@c418410, which prevented users from setting the
  zfs_vdev_aggregation_limit tuning larger than SPA_MAXBLOCKSIZE.
  A similar fix is added to vdev_queue_aggregate().

- In vdev_queue_io_to_issue(), dynamically allocate 'zio_t search' on the
  heap instead of the stack.  In Linux we can't afford such large
  structures on the stack.

Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Reviewed by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.gregg@joyent.com>
Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>

References:
  http://www.illumos.org/issues/4045
  illumos/illumos-gate@69962b5647

Ported-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1913
2013-12-06 09:32:43 -08:00
Saso Kiselkov
1ca546b338 Illumos #3995
3995 Memory leak of compressed buffers in l2arc_write_done

References:
  https://illumos.org/issues/3995

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1688
Issue #1775
2013-11-05 12:26:00 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens
498877baf5 Illumos #3112, #3113, #3114
3112 ztest does not honor ZFS_DEBUG
3113 ztest should use watchpoints to protect frozen arc bufs
3114 some leaked nvlists in zfsdev_ioctl

Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Matt Amdur <Matt.Amdur@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3112
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3113
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3114
  illumos/illumos-gate@cd1c8b85eb

The /proc/self/cmd watchpoint interface is specific to Solaris.
Therefore, the #3113 implementation was reworked to use the more
portable mprotect(2) system call.  When the pages are watched they
are marked read-only for protection.  Any write to the protected
address range immediately trigger a SIGSEGV.  The pages are marked
writable again when they are unwatched.

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1489
2013-11-05 12:14:48 -08:00
George Wilson
03c6040bee Illumos #3236
3236 zio nop-write
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <matthew.ahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@80901aea8e
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3236

Porting Notes

1. This patch is being merged dispite an increased instance of
   https://www.illumos.org/issues/3113 being triggered by ztest.

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1489
2013-11-05 12:14:21 -08:00
Will Andrews
d3cc8b152e Illumos #3742
3742 zfs comments need cleaner, more consistent style
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
Approved by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3742
  illumos/illumos-gate@f717074149

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775

Porting notes:

1. The change to zfs_vfsops.c was dropped because it involves
   zfs_mount_label_policy, which does not exist in the Linux port.
2013-11-04 10:55:25 -08:00
Will Andrews
e49f1e20a0 Illumos #3741
3741 zfs needs better comments
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
Approved by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3741
  illumos/illumos-gate@3e30c24aee

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775
2013-11-04 10:55:25 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens
2e528b49f8 Illumos #3598
3598 want to dtrace when errors are generated in zfs
Reviewed by: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3598
  illumos/illumos-gate@be6fd75a69

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775

Porting notes:

1. include/sys/zfs_context.h has been modified to render some new
   macros inert until dtrace is available on Linux.

2. Linux-specific changes have been adapted to use SET_ERROR().

3. I'm NOT happy about this change.  It does nothing but ugly
   up the code under Linux.  Unfortunately we need to take it to
   avoid more merge conflicts in the future.  -Brian
2013-10-31 14:58:04 -07:00
George Wilson
23c0a1333c Illumos #3561, #3116
3561 arc_meta_limit should be exposed via kstats
3116 zpool reguid may log negative guids to internal SPA history
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Gordon Ross <gordon.ross@nexenta.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3561
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3116
  illumos/illumos-gate@20128a0826

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>

Porting Notes:

1. The spa change was accidentally included in the libzfs_core merge.

2. "Add missing arcstats" (1834f2d8b7)
   already implemented these kstats a few years ago.
2013-10-31 09:23:40 -07:00
George Wilson
a117a6d66e Illumos #3522
3522 zfs module should not allow uninitialized variables
Reviewed by: Sebastien Roy <seb@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3522
  illumos/illumos-gate@d5285cae91

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>

Porting notes:

1. ZFSOnLinux had already addressed many of these issues because of
   its use of -Wall. However, the manner in which they were addressed
   differed. The illumos fixes replace the ones previously made in
   ZFSOnLinux to reduce code differences.

2. Part of the upstream patch made a small change to arc.c that might
   address zfsonlinux/zfs#1334.

3. The initialization of aclsize in zfs_log_create() differs because
   vsecp is a NULL pointer on ZFSOnLinux.

4. The changes to zfs_register_callbacks() were dropped because it
   has diverged and needs to be resynced.
2013-10-30 14:51:27 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
e0b0ca983d Add visibility in to cached dbufs
Currently there is no mechanism to inspect which dbufs are being
cached by the system.  There are some coarse counters in arcstats
by they only give a rough idea of what's being cached.  This patch
aims to improve the current situation by adding a new dbufs kstat.

When read this new kstat will walk all cached dbufs linked in to
the dbuf_hash.  For each dbuf it will dump detailed information
about the buffer.  It will also dump additional information about
the referenced arc buffer and its related dnode.  This provides a
more complete view in to exactly what is being cached.

With this generic infrastructure in place utilities can be written
to post-process the data to understand exactly how the caching is
working.  For example, the data could be processed to show a list
of all cached dnodes and how much space they're consuming.  Or a
similar list could be generated based on dnode type.  Many other
ways to interpret the data exist based on what kinds of questions
you're trying to answer.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
2013-10-25 13:59:40 -07:00
Prakash Surya
1421c89142 Add visibility in to arc_read
This change is an attempt to add visibility into the arc_read calls
occurring on a system, in real time. To do this, a list was added to the
in memory SPA data structure for a pool, with each element on the list
corresponding to a call to arc_read. These entries are then exported
through the kstat interface, which can then be interpreted in userspace.

For each arc_read call, the following information is exported:

 * A unique identifier (uint64_t)
 * The time the entry was added to the list (hrtime_t)
   (*not* wall clock time; relative to the other entries on the list)
 * The objset ID (uint64_t)
 * The object number (uint64_t)
 * The indirection level (uint64_t)
 * The block ID (uint64_t)
 * The name of the function originating the arc_read call (char[24])
 * The arc_flags from the arc_read call (uint32_t)
 * The PID of the reading thread (pid_t)
 * The command or name of thread originating read (char[16])

From this exported information one can see, in real time, exactly what
is being read, what function is generating the read, and whether or not
the read was found to be already cached.

There is still some work to be done, but this should serve as a good
starting point.

Specifically, dbuf_read's are not accounted for in the currently
exported information. Thus, a follow up patch should probably be added
to export these calls that never call into arc_read (they only hit the
dbuf hash table). In addition, it might be nice to create a utility
similar to "arcstat.py" to digest the exported information and display
it in a more readable format. Or perhaps, log the information and allow
for it to be "replayed" at a later time.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-10-25 13:57:25 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
13fe019870 Illumos #3464
3464 zfs synctask code needs restructuring
Reviewed by: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3464
  illumos/illumos-gate@3b2aab1880

Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1495
2013-09-04 16:01:24 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
c273d60d80 Revert "Evict meta data from ghost lists + l2arc headers"
This reverts commit fadd0c4da1 which
introduced a regression in honoring the meta limit.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Close #1660
2013-08-22 12:15:37 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
fadd0c4da1 Evict meta data from ghost lists + l2arc headers
When the meta limit is exceeded the ARC evicts some meta data
buffers from the mfu+mru lists.  Unfortunately, for meta data
heavy workloads it's possible for these buffers to accumulate
on the ghost lists if arc_c doesn't exceed arc_size.

To handle this case arc_adjust_meta() has been entended to
explicitly evict meta data buffers from the ghost lists in
proportion to what was evicted from the mfu+mru lists.

If this is insufficient we request that the VFS release
some inodes and dentries.  This will result in the release
of some dnodes which are counted as 'other' metadata.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-08-09 10:06:12 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
68121a03da Allow arc_evict_ghost() to only evict meta data
The default behavior of arc_evict_ghost() is to start by evicting
data buffers.  Then only if the requested number of bytes to evict
cannot be satisfied by data buffers move on to meta data buffers.

This is ideal for honoring arc_c since it's preferable to keep the
meta data cached.  However, if we're trying to free memory from the
arc to honor the meta limit it's a problem because we will need to
discard all the data to get to the meta data.

To avoid this issue the arc_evict_ghost() is now passed a fourth
argumented describing which buffer type to start with.  The
arc_evict() function already behaves exactly like this for a
same reason so this is consistent with the existing code.

All existing callers have been updated to pass ARC_BUFC_DATA so
this patch introduces no functional change.  New callers may
pass ARC_BUFC_METADATA to skip immediately to evicting meta
data leaving the normal data untouched.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-08-09 10:06:08 -07:00
Saso Kiselkov
3a17a7a99a Illumos #3137 L2ARC compression
3137 L2ARC compression
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@nexenta.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@aad02571bc
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3137
  http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/L2ARC+Compression

Notes for Linux port:

A l2arc_nocompress module option was added to prevent the
compression of l2arc buffers regardless of how a dataset's
compression property is set.  This allows the legacy behavior
to be preserved.

Ported by: James H <james@kagisoft.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1379
2013-08-08 13:27:21 -07:00
Richard Yao
c11a12bc3b Return -1 from arc_shrinker_func()
This is analogous to SPL commit zfsonlinux/spl@b9b3715.  While
we don't have clear evidence of systems getting caught here
indefinately like in the SPL this ensures that it will never
happen.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1579
2013-08-08 09:20:56 -07:00
Richard Yao
cb543e6b5e Remove b_thawed from arc_buf_hdr_t
The code involving b_thawed appears to be dead, so lets discard it.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1614
2013-08-01 09:48:07 -07:00
Richard Yao
3f4058cd15 Remove arc_data_buf_alloc()/arc_data_buf_free()
These functions are used in neither Illumos nor ZFSOnLinux. They appear
to have been replaced by arc_buf_alloc()/arc_buf_free(), so lets remove
them.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1614
2013-08-01 09:48:07 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
bce45ec9fb Make arc+l2arc module options writable
The l2arc module options can be made safely writable.  This allows
the options to be changed without unloading/loading the modules.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-07-30 15:40:20 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
c93504f03a Change l2arc_norw default to zero
These days modern SSDs can efficiently service concurrent reads
and writes.  When this flag was added that wasn't really the
case for a variety of SSD controllers.  But now we can set the
default value to take advantage of this parallelism and only
disable this as needed for specific troublesome hardware.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-07-29 22:05:32 -07:00
Ying Zhu
6e1d7276c9 Fix inaccurate arcstat_l2_hdr_size calculations
Based on the comments in arc.c we know that buffers can exist both
in arc and l2arc, under this circumstance both arc_buf_hdr_t and
l2arc_buf_hdr_t will be allocated. However the current logic only
cares for memory that l2arc_buf_hdr takes up when the buffer's
state transfers from or to arc_l2c_only. This will cause obvious
deviations for illumos's zfs version since the sizeof(l2arc_buf_hdr)
is larger than ZOL's. We can implement the calcuation in the
following simple way:

1. When allocate a l2arc_buf_hdr_t we add its memory consumption
   instantly and subtract it when we free or evict the l2arc buf.
2. According to l2arc_hdr_stat_add and l2arc_hdr_stat_remove, if
   the buffer only stays in l2arc we should also add the memory
   its arc_buf_hdr_t consumes, so we only need to add HDR_SIZE to
   arcstat_l2_hdr_size since we already concerned with L2HDR_SIZE
   in step 1 and the same for transfering arc bufs from l2arc only
   state.

The testbox has 2 4-core Intel Xeon CPUs(2.13GHz), with 16GB memory
and tests were set upped in the following way:

1. Fdisked a SATA disk into two partitions, one partition for zpool
   storage and the other one was used as the cache device.
2. Generated some files occupying 14GB altogether in the zpool
   prepared in step 1 using iozone.
3. Read them all using md5sum and watched the l2arc related statistics
   in /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats. After the reading ended the
   l2_hdr_size and l2_size were shown like this:

      l2_size             4       4403780608
      l2_hdr_size         4       0

   which was weird.

4. After applying this patch and reran step 1-3, the results were
   as following:

      l2_size             4       4306443264
      l2_hdr_size         4       535600

   these numbers made sense, on 64-bit systems the
   sizeof(l2arc_buf_hdr_t) is 16 bytes.  Assue all blocks cached by
   l2arc are 128KB, so 535600/16*128*1024=4387635200, since not all
   blocks are equal-sized, the theoretical result will be a little
   bigger, as we can see.

Since I'm familiar with systemtap instrumentation tool I used it to
examine what had happened. The script looked like this:

probe module("zfs").function("arc_chage_state")
{
	if ($new_state == $arc_l2_only)
		printf("change arc buf to arc_l2_only\n")
}

It will print out some information each time we call funciton
arc_chage_state if the argument new_state is arc_l2_only.  I
gathered the trace logs and found that none of the arc bufs ran
into arc state arc_l2_only when the tests was running, this was
the reason why l2_hdr_size in step 3 was 0. The arc bufs fell into
arc_l2_only when the pool or the filesystem was offlined.

Signed-off-by: Ying Zhu <casualfisher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-07-29 22:05:26 -07:00
Ying Zhu
b4f7f10527 Improve code in arc_buf_remove_ref
When we remove references of arc bufs in the arc_anon state we
needn't take its header's hash_lock, so postpone it to where we
really need it to avoid unnecessary invocations of function buf_hash.

Signed-off-by: Ying Zhu <casualfisher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1557
2013-07-09 11:53:28 -07:00
George Wilson
294f68063b Illumos #3498 panic in arc_read()
3498 panic in arc_read(): !refcount_is_zero(&pbuf->b_hdr->b_refcnt)
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@1b912ec710
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3498

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1249
2013-07-02 13:34:31 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
df4474f92d Illumos #3805 arc shouldn't cache freed blocks
3805 arc shouldn't cache freed blocks
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Elling <richard.elling@dey-sys.com>
Reviewed by: Will Andrews <will@firepipe.net>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@nexenta.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@6e6d5868f5
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3805

ZFS should proactively evict freed blocks from the cache.

On dcenter, we saw that we were caching ~256GB of metadata, while the
pool only had <4GB of metadata on disk.  We were wasting about half the
system's RAM (252GB) on blocks that have been freed.

Even though these freed blocks will never be used again, and thus will
eventually be evicted, this causes us to use memory inefficiently for 2
reasons:

1. A block that is freed has no chance of being accessed again, but will
be kept in memory preferentially to a block that was accessed before it
(and is thus older) but has not been freed and thus has at least some
chance of being accessed again.

2. We partition the ARC into several buckets:
user data that has been accessed only once (MRU)
metadata that has been accessed only once (MRU)
user data that has been accessed more than once (MFU)
metadata that has been accessed more than once (MFU)

The user data vs metadata split is somewhat arbitrary, and the primary
control on how much memory is used to cache data vs metadata is to
simply try to keep the proportion the same as it has been in the past
(each bucket "evicts against" itself).  The secondary control is to
evict data before evicting metadata.

Because of this bucketing, we may end up with one bucket mostly
containing freed blocks that are very old, while another bucket has more
recently accessed, still-allocated blocks.  Data in the useful bucket
(with still-allocated blocks) may be evicted in preference to data in
the useless bucket (with old, freed blocks).

On dcenter, we saw that the MFU metadata bucket was 230MB, while the MFU
data bucket was 27GB and the MRU metadata bucket was 256GB.  However,
the vast majority of data in the MRU metadata bucket (256GB) was freed
blocks, and thus useless.  Meanwhile, the MFU metadata bucket (230MB)
was constantly evicting useful blocks that will be soon needed.

The problem of cache segmentation is a larger problem that needs more
investigation.  However, if we stop caching freed blocks, it should
reduce the impact of this more fundamental issue.

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1503
2013-06-20 09:55:52 -07:00
Madhav Suresh
c99c90015e Illumos #3006
3006 VERIFY[S,U,P] and ASSERT[S,U,P] frequently check if first
     argument is zero

Reviewed by Matt Ahrens <matthew.ahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Approved by Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@fb09f5aad4
  https://illumos.org/issues/3006

Requires:
  zfsonlinux/spl@1c6d149feb

Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1509
2013-06-19 15:14:10 -07:00
Richard Yao
b01615d5ac Constify structures containing function pointers
The PaX team modified the kernel's modpost to report writeable function
pointers as section mismatches because they are potential exploit
targets. We could ignore the warnings, but their presence can obscure
actual issues. Proper const correctness can also catch programming
mistakes.

Building the kernel modules against a PaX/GrSecurity patched Linux 3.4.2
kernel reports 133 section mismatches prior to this patch. This patch
eliminates 130 of them. The quantity of writeable function pointers
eliminated by constifying each structure is as follows:

vdev_opts_t             52
zil_replay_func_t       24
zio_compress_info_t     24
zio_checksum_info_t     9
space_map_ops_t         7
arc_byteswap_func_t     5

The remaining 3 writeable function pointers cannot be addressed by this
patch. 2 of them are in zpl_fs_type. The kernel's sget function requires
that this be non-const. The final writeable function pointer is created
by SPL_SHRINKER_DECLARE. The kernel's set_shrinker() and
remove_shrinker() functions also require that this be non-const.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1300
2013-03-04 08:49:32 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
546c978bbd Enable zfs_arc_memory_throttle_disable by default
The zfs_arc_memory_throttle_disable module option was introduced
by commit 0c5493d470 to resolve a
memory miscalculation which could result in the txg_sync thread
spinning.

When this was first introduced the default behavior was left
unchanged until enough real world usage confirmed there were no
unexpected issues.  We've now reached that point.  Linux's
direct reclaim is working as expected so we're enabling this
behavior by default.

This helps pave the way to retire the spl_kmem_availrmem()
functionality in the SPL layer.  This was the only caller.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #938
2013-02-21 13:38:24 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
0c5493d470 Add zfs_arc_memory_throttle_disable module option
The way in which virtual box ab(uses) memory can throw off the
free memory calculation in arc_memory_throttle().  The result is
the txg_sync thread will effectively spin waiting for memory to
be released even though there's lots of memory on the system.

To handle this case I'm adding a zfs_arc_memory_throttle_disable
module option largely for virtual box users.  Setting this option
disables free memory checks which allows the txg_sync thread to
make progress.

By default this option is disabled to preserve the current
behavior.  However, because Linux supports direct memory reclaim
it's doubtful throttling due to perceived memory pressure is ever
a good idea.  We should enable this option by default once we've
done enough real world testing to convince ourselve there aren't
any unexpected side effects.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #938
2013-02-01 11:17:14 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
1f7c30df8f Add zfs_disable_dup_eviction module option
Commit 1eb5bfa introduced a new zfs_disable_dup_eviction tunable.
It should have been made available as a module option in the
original patch but was overlooked.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-02-01 09:57:57 -08:00
Bart Coddens
5c83989071 Illumos #2618 arc.c mistypes in the comments
2618 arc.c mistypes in the comments

Reviewed by: Jason King <jason.brian.king@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Josef Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@fc98fea58e
  illumos changeset: 13721:5b51a16a186f
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2618

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-01-11 09:16:59 -08:00
George Wilson
1eb5bfa3dc Illumos #3145, #3212
3145 single-copy arc
3212 ztest: race condition between vdev_online() and spa_vdev_remove()

Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <matthew.ahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos-gate/commit/9253d63df408bb48584e0b1abfcc24ef2472382e
  illumos changeset: 13840:97fd5cdf328a
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3145
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3212

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #989
Closes #1137
2013-01-08 10:35:44 -08:00
Christopher Siden
9ae529ec5d Illumos #2619 and #2747
2619 asynchronous destruction of ZFS file systems
2747 SPA versioning with zfs feature flags
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <gwilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Reviewed by: Dan Kruchinin <dan.kruchinin@gmail.com>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <Eric.Schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@53089ab7c8
  illumos/illumos-gate@ad135b5d64
  illumos changeset: 13700:2889e2596bd6
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2619
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2747

NOTE: The grub specific changes were not ported.  This change
must be made to the Linux grub packages.

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-01-08 10:35:35 -08:00
Richard Yao
b68503fb30 Remove vmem_size() consumers
There are currently three vmem_size() consumers all of which are
part of the ARC implemention.  However, since the expected behavior
of the Linux and Solaris virtual memory subsystems are so different
the behavior in each of these instances needs to be reevaluated.

* arc_evict_needed() - This is actually dead code.  Arena support
was never added to the SPL and zio_arena is always NULL.  This
support isn't needed so we simply remove this dead code.

* arc_memory_throttle() - On Solaris where virtual memory constitutes
almost all of the address space we can reasonably expect there to be
a fairly large amount free.  However, on Linux by default we only
have about 100MB total and that's heavily used by the ARC.  So the
expectation on Linux is that this will usually be a small value.
Therefore we remove the vmem_size() check for i386 systems because
the expectation is that it will be less than the zfs_write_limit_max.

* arc_init() - Here vmem_size() is used to initially size the ARC.
Since the ARC is currently backed by the virtual address space it
makes sense to use this as a limit on the ARC for 32-bit systems.
This code can be removed when the ARC is backed by the page cache.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #831
2012-10-12 10:03:03 -07:00
Richard Yao
7df05a4266 Fix zfs_write_limit_max integer size mismatch on 32-bit systems
Commit c409e4647f introduced a
number of module parameters.  This required several types to be
changed to accomidate the required module parameters Linux macros.

Unfortunately, arc.c contained its own extern definition of the
zfs_write_limit_max variable and its type was not updated to be
consistent with its dsl_pool.c counterpart.  If the variable had
been properly marked extern in a common header, then gcc would
have generated a warning and this would not have slipped through.

The result of this was that the ARC unconditionally expected
zfs_write_limit_max to be 64-bit. Unfortunately, the largest size
integer module parameter that Linux supports is unsigned long, which
varies in size depending on the host system's native word size. The
effect was that on 32-bit systems, ARC incorrectly performed 64-bit
operations on a 32-bit value by reading the neighboring 32 bits as
the upper 32 bits of the 64-bit value.

We correct that by changing the extern declaration to use the unsigned
long type and move these extern definitions in to the common arc.h
header. This should make ARC correctly treat zfs_write_limit_max as a
32-bit value on 32-bit systems.

Reported-by: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #749
2012-10-11 11:09:25 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
594b4dd82a Switch KM_SLEEP to KM_PUSHPAGE
This warning indicates the incorrect use of KM_SLEEP in a call
path which must use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid deadlocking in direct
reclaim.  See commit b8d06fca08
for additional details.

  SPL: Fixing allocation for task txg_sync (6093) which
  used GFP flags 0x297bda7c with PF_NOFS set

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #917
2012-09-04 08:41:12 -07:00
Richard Yao
b8d06fca08 Switch KM_SLEEP to KM_PUSHPAGE
Differences between how paging is done on Solaris and Linux can cause
deadlocks if KM_SLEEP is used in any the following contexts.

  * The txg_sync thread
  * The zvol write/discard threads
  * The zpl_putpage() VFS callback

This is because KM_SLEEP will allow for direct reclaim which may result
in the VM calling back in to the filesystem or block layer to write out
pages.  If a lock is held over this operation the potential exists to
deadlock the system.  To ensure forward progress all memory allocations
in these contexts must us KM_PUSHPAGE which disables performing any I/O
to accomplish the memory allocation.

Previously, this behavior was acheived by setting PF_MEMALLOC on the
thread.  However, that resulted in unexpected side effects such as the
exhaustion of pages in ZONE_DMA.  This approach touchs more of the zfs
code, but it is more consistent with the right way to handle these cases
under Linux.

This is patch lays the ground work for being able to safely revert the
following commits which used PF_MEMALLOC:

  21ade34 Disable direct reclaim for z_wr_* threads
  cfc9a5c Fix zpl_writepage() deadlock
  eec8164 Fix ASSERTION(!dsl_pool_sync_context(tx->tx_pool))

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #726
2012-08-27 12:01:37 -07:00
Garrett D'Amore
3541dc6d02 Illumos #1748: desire support for reguid in zfs
Reviewed by: George Wilson <gwilson@zfsmail.com>
Reviewed by: Igor Kozhukhov <ikozhukhov@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Alexander Eremin <alexander.eremin@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Alexander Stetsenko <ams@nexenta.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/1748

This commit modifies the user to kernel space ioctl ABI.  Extra
care should be taken when updating to ensure both the kernel
modules and utilities are updated.  If only the user space
component is updated both the 'zpool events' command and the
'zpool reguid' command will not work until the kernel modules
are updated.

Ported by:     Martin Matuska <martin@matuska.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #665
2012-07-11 13:08:56 -07:00
Richard Yao
518b487602 Update ARC memory limits to account for SLUB internal fragmentation
23bdb07d4e updated the ARC memory limits
to be 1/2 of memory or all but 4GB. Unfortunately, these values assume
zero internal fragmentation in the SLUB allocator, when in reality, the
internal fragmentation could be as high as 50%, effectively doubling
memory usage. This poses clear safety issues, because it permits the
size of ARC to exceed system memory.

This patch changes this so that the default value of arc_c_max is always
1/2 of system memory. This effectively limits the ARC to the memory that
the system has physically installed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #660
2012-04-30 10:04:34 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
302f753f16 Integrate ARC more tightly with Linux
Under Solaris the ARC was designed to stay one step ahead of the
VM subsystem.  It would attempt to recognize low memory situtions
before they occured and evict data from the cache.  It would also
make assessments about if there was enough free memory to perform
a specific operation.

This was all possible because Solaris exposes a fairly decent
view of the memory state of the system to other kernel threads.
Linux on the other hand does not make this information easily
available.  To avoid extensive modifications to the ARC the SPL
attempts to provide these same interfaces.  While this works it
is not ideal and problems can arise when the ARC and Linux have
different ideas about when your out of memory.  This has manifested
itself in the past as a spinning arc_reclaim_thread.

This patch abandons the emulated Solaris interfaces in favor of
the prefered Linux interface.  That means moving the bulk of the
memory reclaim logic out of the arc_reclaim_thread and in to the
evict driven shrinker callback.  The Linux VM will call this
function when it needs memory.  The ARC is then responsible for
attempting to free the requested amount of memory if possible.

Several interfaces have been modified to accomidate this approach,
however the basic user space implementation remains the same.
The following changes almost exclusively just apply to the kernel
implementation.

* Removed the hdr_recl() reclaim callback which is redundant
  with the broader arc_shrinker_func().

* Reduced arc_grow_retry to 5 seconds from 60.  This is now used
  internally in the ARC with arc_no_grow to indicate that direct
  reclaim was recently performed.  This typically indicates a
  rapid change in memory demands which the kswapd threads were
  unable to keep ahead of.  As long as direct reclaim is happening
  once every 5 seconds arc growth will be paused to avoid further
  contributing to the existing memory pressure.  The more common
  indirect reclaim paths will not set arc_no_grow.

* arc_shrink() has been extended to take the number of bytes by
  which arc_c should be reduced.  This allows for a more granual
  reduction of the arc target.  Since the kernel provides a
  reclaim value to the arc_shrinker_func() this value is used
  instead of 1<<arc_shrink_shift.

* arc_reclaim_needed() has been removed.  It was used to determine
  if the system was under memory pressure and relied extensively
  on Solaris specific VM interfaces.  In most case the new code
  just checks arc_no_grow which indicates that within the last
  arc_grow_retry seconds direct memory reclaim occurred.

* arc_memory_throttle() has been updated to always include the
  amount of evictable memory (arc and page cache) in its free
  space calculations.  This space is largely available in most
  call paths due to direct memory reclaim.

* The Solaris pageout code was also removed to avoid confusion.
  It has always been disabled due to proc_pageout being defined
  as NULL in the Linux port.

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-04-30 10:03:05 -07:00
Prakash Surya
409dc1a570 Use KM_PUSHPAGE in l2arc_write_buffers
There is potential for deadlock in the l2arc_feed thread if KM_PUSHPAGE
is not used for the allocations made in l2arc_write_buffers.
Specifically, if KM_PUSHPAGE is not used for these allocations, it is
possible for reclaim to be triggered which can cause the l2arc_feed
thread to deadlock itself on the ARC_mru mutex. An example of this is
demonstrated in the following backtrace of the l2arc_feed thread:

    crash> bt 4123
    PID: 4123   TASK: ffff88062f8c1500  CPU: 6   COMMAND: "l2arc_feed"
      0 [ffff88062511d610] schedule at ffffffff814eeee0
      1 [ffff88062511d6d8] __mutex_lock_slowpath at ffffffff814f057e
      2 [ffff88062511d748] mutex_lock at ffffffff814f041b
      3 [ffff88062511d768] arc_evict at ffffffffa05130ca [zfs]
      4 [ffff88062511d858] arc_adjust at ffffffffa05139a9 [zfs]
      5 [ffff88062511d878] arc_shrink at ffffffffa0513a95 [zfs]
      6 [ffff88062511d898] arc_kmem_reap_now at ffffffffa0513be8 [zfs]
      7 [ffff88062511d8c8] arc_shrinker_func at ffffffffa0513ccc [zfs]
      8 [ffff88062511d8f8] shrink_slab at ffffffff8112a17a
      9 [ffff88062511d958] do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffff8112bfdf
     10 [ffff88062511d9e8] try_to_free_pages at ffffffff8112c3ed
     11 [ffff88062511da98] __alloc_pages_nodemask at ffffffff8112431d
     12 [ffff88062511dbb8] kmem_getpages at ffffffff8115e632
     13 [ffff88062511dbe8] fallback_alloc at ffffffff8115f24a
     14 [ffff88062511dc68] ____cache_alloc_node at ffffffff8115efc9
     15 [ffff88062511dcc8] __kmalloc at ffffffff8115fbf9
     16 [ffff88062511dd18] kmem_alloc_debug at ffffffffa047b8cb [spl]
     17 [ffff88062511dda8] l2arc_feed_thread at ffffffffa0511e71 [zfs]
     18 [ffff88062511dea8] thread_generic_wrapper at ffffffffa047d1a1 [spl]
     19 [ffff88062511dee8] kthread at ffffffff81090a86
     20 [ffff88062511df48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8100c14a

Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-04-17 11:56:21 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
fc41c6402b Properly expose the mfu ghost list kstats
Due to a typo the mru ghost lists stats were accidentally being
exposed as the mfu ghost list stats.  This was harmless but
confusing since memory usage could be over reported.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-03-27 15:08:22 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
570827e129 Add 'dmu_tx' kstats entry
Keep counters for the various reasons that a thread may end up
in txg_wait_open() waiting on a new txg.  This can be useful
when attempting to determine why a particular workload is
under performing.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-27 08:59:10 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
13be560d89 Add arc_state_t stats to arcstats
To ensure the arc is behaving properly we need greater visibility
in to exactly how it's managing the systems memory.  This patch
takes one step in that direction be adding the current arc_state_t
for the anon, mru, mru_ghost, mfu, and mfs_ghost lists.  The l2
arc_state_t is already well represented in the arcstats.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-27 08:58:59 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
d7e398ce1a Cleanup ZFS debug infrastructure
Historically the internal zfs debug infrastructure has been
scattered throughout the code.  Since we expect to start making
more use of this code this patch performs some cleanup.

* Consolidate the zfs debug infrastructure in the zfs_debug.[ch]
  files.  This includes moving the zfs_flags and zfs_recover
  variables, plus moving the zfs_panic_recover() function.

* Remove the existing unused functionality in zfs_debug.c and
  replace it with code which correctly utilized the spl logging
  infrastructure.

* Remove the __dprintf() function from zfs_ioctl.c.  This is
  dead code, the dprintf() functionality in the kernel relies
  on the spl log support.

* Remove dprintf() from hdr_recl().  This wasn't particularly
  useful and was missing the required format specifier anyway.

* Subsequent patches should unify the dprintf() and zfs_dbgmsg()
  functions.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-02 11:24:30 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
ab26409db7 Linux 3.1 compat, super_block->s_shrink
The Linux 3.1 kernel has introduced the concept of per-filesystem
shrinkers which are directly assoicated with a super block.  Prior
to this change there was one shared global shrinker.

The zfs code relied on being able to call the global shrinker when
the arc_meta_limit was exceeded.  This would cause the VFS to drop
references on a fraction of the dentries in the dcache.  The ARC
could then safely reclaim the memory used by these entries and
honor the arc_meta_limit.  Unfortunately, when per-filesystem
shrinkers were added the old interfaces were made unavailable.

This change adds support to use the new per-filesystem shrinker
interface so we can continue to honor the arc_meta_limit.  The
major benefit of the new interface is that we can now target
only the zfs filesystem for dentry and inode pruning.  Thus we
can minimize any impact on the caching of other filesystems.

In the context of making this change several other important
issues related to managing the ARC were addressed, they include:

* The dnlc_reduce_cache() function which was called by the ARC
to drop dentries for the Posix layer was replaced with a generic
zfs_prune_t callback.  The ZPL layer now registers a callback to
drop these dentries removing a layering violation which dates
back to the Solaris code.  This callback can also be used by
other ARC consumers such as Lustre.

  arc_add_prune_callback()
  arc_remove_prune_callback()

* The arc_reduce_dnlc_percent module option has been changed to
arc_meta_prune for clarity.  The dnlc functions are specific to
Solaris's VFS and have already been largely eliminated already.
The replacement tunable now represents the number of bytes the
prune callback will request when invoked.

* Less aggressively invoke the prune callback.  We used to call
this whenever we exceeded the arc_meta_limit however that's not
strictly correct since it results in over zeleous reclaim of
dentries and inodes.  It is now only called once the arc_meta_limit
is exceeded and every effort has been made to evict other data from
the ARC cache.

* More promptly manage exceeding the arc_meta_limit.  When reading
meta data in to the cache if a buffer was unable to be recycled
notify the arc_reclaim thread to invoke the required prune.

* Added arcstat_prune kstat which is incremented when the ARC
is forced to request that a consumer prune its cache.  Remember
this will only occur when the ARC has no other choice.  If it
can evict buffers safely without invoking the prune callback
it will.

* This change is also expected to resolve the unexpect collapses
of the ARC cache.  This would occur because when exceeded just the
arc_meta_limit reclaim presure would be excerted on the arc_c
value via arc_shrink().  This effectively shrunk the entire cache
when really we just needed to reclaim meta data.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #466
Closes #292
2012-01-11 11:46:02 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
23bdb07d4e Update default ARC memory limits
In the upstream OpenSolaris ZFS code the maximum ARC usage is
limited to 3/4 of memory or all but 1GB, whichever is larger.
Because of how Linux's VM subsystem is organized these defaults
have proven to be too large which can lead to stability issues.

To avoid making everyone manually tune the ARC the defaults are
being changed to 1/2 of memory or all but 4GB.  The rational for
this is as follows:

* Desktop Systems (less than 8GB of memory)

  Limiting the ARC to 1/2 of memory is desirable for desktop
  systems which have highly dynamic memory requirements.  For
  example, launching your web browser can suddenly result in a
  demand for several gigabytes of memory.  This memory must be
  reclaimed from the ARC cache which can take some time.  The
  user will experience this reclaim time as a sluggish system
  with poor interactive performance.  Thus in this case it is
  preferable to leave the memory as free and available for
  immediate use.

* Server Systems (more than 8GB of memory)

  Using all but 4GB of memory for the ARC is preferable for
  server systems.  These systems often run with minimal user
  interaction and have long running daemons with relatively
  stable memory demands.  These systems will benefit most by
  having as much data cached in memory as possible.

These values should work well for most configurations.  However,
if you have a desktop system with more than 8GB of memory you may
wish to further restrict the ARC.  This can still be accomplished
by setting the 'zfs_arc_max' module option.

Additionally, keep in mind these aren't currently hard limits.
The ARC is based on a slab implementation which can suffer from
memory fragmentation.  Because this fragmentation is not visible
from the ARC it may believe it is within the specified limits while
actually consuming slightly more memory.  How much more memory get's
consumed will be determined by how badly fragmented the slabs are.

In the long term this can be mitigated by slab defragmentation code
which was OpenSolaris solution.  Or preferably, using the page cache
to back the ARC under Linux would be even better.  See issue #75
for the benefits of more tightly integrating with the page cache.

This change also fixes a issue where the default ARC max was being
set incorrectly for machines with less than 2GB of memory.  The
constant in the arc_c_max comparison must be explicitly cast to
a uint64_t type to prevent overflow and the wrong conditional
branch being taken.  This failure was typically observed in VMs
which are commonly created with less than 2GB of memory.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #75
2011-12-05 12:02:12 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
abd8610cd5 Add L2ARC tunables
The performance of the L2ARC can be tweaked by a number of tunables, which
may be necessary for different workloads:

     l2arc_write_max         max write bytes per interval
     l2arc_write_boost       extra write bytes during device warmup
     l2arc_noprefetch        skip caching prefetched buffers
     l2arc_headroom          number of max device writes to precache
     l2arc_feed_secs         seconds between L2ARC writing
     l2arc_feed_min_ms       min feed interval in milliseconds
     l2arc_feed_again        turbo L2ARC warmup
     l2arc_norw              no reads during writes

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #316
2011-07-08 12:44:11 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
7e7baecaa3 Linux 3.0 compat, shrinker compatibility
To accomindate the updated Linux 3.0 shrinker API the spl
shrinker compatibility code was updated.  Unfortunately, this
couldn't be done cleanly without slightly adjusting the comapt
API.  See spl commit a55bcaad18.

This commit updates the ZFS code to use the slightly modified
API.  You must use the latest SPL if your building ZFS.
2011-06-21 14:36:39 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
3fd70ee6b0 Fix 'negative objects to delete' warning
Normally when the arc_shrinker_func() function is called the return
value should be:

   >=0 - To indicate the number of freeable objects in the cache, or
   -1  - To indicate this cache should be skipped

However, when the shrinker callback is called with 'nr_to_scan' equal
to zero.  The caller simply wants the number of freeable objects in
the cache and we must never return -1.  This patch reorders the
first two conditionals in arc_shrinker_func() to ensure this behavior.

This patch also now explictly casts arc_size and arc_c_min to signed
int64_t types so MAX(x, 0) works as expected.  As unsigned types
we would never see an negative value which defeated the purpose of
the MAX() lower bound and broke the shrinker logic.

Finally, when nr_to_scan is non-zero we explictly prevent all reclaim
below arc_c_min.  This is done to prevent the Linux page cache from
completely crowding out the ARC.  This limit is tunable and some
experimentation is likely going to be required to set it exactly right.
For now we're sticking with the OpenSolaris defaults.

Closes #218
Closes #243
2011-05-18 10:29:22 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
c409e4647f Add missing ZFS tunables
This commit adds module options for all existing zfs tunables.
Ideally the average user should never need to modify any of these
values.  However, in practice sometimes you do need to tweak these
values for one reason or another.  In those cases it's nice not to
have to resort to rebuilding from source.  All tunables are visable
to modinfo and the list is as follows:

$ modinfo module/zfs/zfs.ko
filename:       module/zfs/zfs.ko
license:        CDDL
author:         Sun Microsystems/Oracle, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
description:    ZFS
srcversion:     8EAB1D71DACE05B5AA61567
depends:        spl,znvpair,zcommon,zunicode,zavl
vermagic:       2.6.32-131.0.5.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
parm:           zvol_major:Major number for zvol device (uint)
parm:           zvol_threads:Number of threads for zvol device (uint)
parm:           zio_injection_enabled:Enable fault injection (int)
parm:           zio_bulk_flags:Additional flags to pass to bulk buffers (int)
parm:           zio_delay_max:Max zio millisec delay before posting event (int)
parm:           zio_requeue_io_start_cut_in_line:Prioritize requeued I/O (bool)
parm:           zil_replay_disable:Disable intent logging replay (int)
parm:           zfs_nocacheflush:Disable cache flushes (bool)
parm:           zfs_read_chunk_size:Bytes to read per chunk (long)
parm:           zfs_vdev_max_pending:Max pending per-vdev I/Os (int)
parm:           zfs_vdev_min_pending:Min pending per-vdev I/Os (int)
parm:           zfs_vdev_aggregation_limit:Max vdev I/O aggregation size (int)
parm:           zfs_vdev_time_shift:Deadline time shift for vdev I/O (int)
parm:           zfs_vdev_ramp_rate:Exponential I/O issue ramp-up rate (int)
parm:           zfs_vdev_read_gap_limit:Aggregate read I/O over gap (int)
parm:           zfs_vdev_write_gap_limit:Aggregate write I/O over gap (int)
parm:           zfs_vdev_scheduler:I/O scheduler (charp)
parm:           zfs_vdev_cache_max:Inflate reads small than max (int)
parm:           zfs_vdev_cache_size:Total size of the per-disk cache (int)
parm:           zfs_vdev_cache_bshift:Shift size to inflate reads too (int)
parm:           zfs_scrub_limit:Max scrub/resilver I/O per leaf vdev (int)
parm:           zfs_recover:Set to attempt to recover from fatal errors (int)
parm:           spa_config_path:SPA config file (/etc/zfs/zpool.cache) (charp)
parm:           zfs_zevent_len_max:Max event queue length (int)
parm:           zfs_zevent_cols:Max event column width (int)
parm:           zfs_zevent_console:Log events to the console (int)
parm:           zfs_top_maxinflight:Max I/Os per top-level (int)
parm:           zfs_resilver_delay:Number of ticks to delay resilver (int)
parm:           zfs_scrub_delay:Number of ticks to delay scrub (int)
parm:           zfs_scan_idle:Idle window in clock ticks (int)
parm:           zfs_scan_min_time_ms:Min millisecs to scrub per txg (int)
parm:           zfs_free_min_time_ms:Min millisecs to free per txg (int)
parm:           zfs_resilver_min_time_ms:Min millisecs to resilver per txg (int)
parm:           zfs_no_scrub_io:Set to disable scrub I/O (bool)
parm:           zfs_no_scrub_prefetch:Set to disable scrub prefetching (bool)
parm:           zfs_txg_timeout:Max seconds worth of delta per txg (int)
parm:           zfs_no_write_throttle:Disable write throttling (int)
parm:           zfs_write_limit_shift:log2(fraction of memory) per txg (int)
parm:           zfs_txg_synctime_ms:Target milliseconds between tgx sync (int)
parm:           zfs_write_limit_min:Min tgx write limit (ulong)
parm:           zfs_write_limit_max:Max tgx write limit (ulong)
parm:           zfs_write_limit_inflated:Inflated tgx write limit (ulong)
parm:           zfs_write_limit_override:Override tgx write limit (ulong)
parm:           zfs_prefetch_disable:Disable all ZFS prefetching (int)
parm:           zfetch_max_streams:Max number of streams per zfetch (uint)
parm:           zfetch_min_sec_reap:Min time before stream reclaim (uint)
parm:           zfetch_block_cap:Max number of blocks to fetch at a time (uint)
parm:           zfetch_array_rd_sz:Number of bytes in a array_read (ulong)
parm:           zfs_pd_blks_max:Max number of blocks to prefetch (int)
parm:           zfs_dedup_prefetch:Enable prefetching dedup-ed blks (int)
parm:           zfs_arc_min:Min arc size (ulong)
parm:           zfs_arc_max:Max arc size (ulong)
parm:           zfs_arc_meta_limit:Meta limit for arc size (ulong)
parm:           zfs_arc_reduce_dnlc_percent:Meta reclaim percentage (int)
parm:           zfs_arc_grow_retry:Seconds before growing arc size (int)
parm:           zfs_arc_shrink_shift:log2(fraction of arc to reclaim) (int)
parm:           zfs_arc_p_min_shift:arc_c shift to calc min/max arc_p (int)
2011-05-04 10:02:37 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
6a8f9b6bf0 Enforce ARC meta-data limits
This change ensures the ARC meta-data limits are enforced.  Without
this enforcement meta-data can grow to consume all of the ARC cache
pushing out data and hurting performance.  The cache is aggressively
reclaimed but this is a soft and not a hard limit.  The cache may
exceed the set limit briefly before being brought under control.

By default 25% of the ARC capacity can be used for meta-data.  This
limit can be tuned by setting the 'zfs_arc_meta_limit' module option.
Once this limit is exceeded meta-data reclaim will occur in 3 percent
chunks, or may be tuned using 'arc_reduce_dnlc_percent'.

Closes #193
2011-04-21 13:49:31 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
7cb67b45f3 Add direct+indirect ARC reclaim
Under OpenSolaris all memory reclaim is done asyncronously.  Under
Linux memory reclaim is done asynchronously _and_ synchronously.
When a process allocates memory with GFP_KERNEL it explicitly allows
the kernel to do reclaim on its behalf to satify the allocation.
If that GFP_KERNEL allocation fails the kernel may take more drastic
measures to reclaim the memory such as killing user space processes.

This was observed to happen with ZFS because the ARC could consume
a large fraction of the system memory but no synchronous reclaim
could be performed on it.  The result was GFP_KERNEL allocations
could fail resulting in OOM events, and only moments latter the
arc_reclaim thread would free unused memory from the ARC.

This change leaves the arc_thread in place to manage the fundamental
ARC behavior.  But it adds a synchronous (direct) reclaim path for
the ARC which can be called when memory is badly needed.  It also
adds an asynchronous (indirect) reclaim path which is called
much more frequently to prune the ARC slab caches.
2011-04-07 09:52:10 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
1834f2d8b7 Add missing arcstats
The following useful values were missing the arcstats.  This change
adds them in to provide greater visibility in to the arcs behavior.

arc_no_grow                     4    0
arc_tempreserve                 4    0
arc_loaned_bytes                4    0
arc_meta_used                   4    624774592
arc_meta_limit                  4    400785408
arc_meta_max                    4    625594176
2011-04-07 09:52:05 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
691f6ac4c2 Use KM_PUSHPAGE instead of KM_SLEEP
It used to be the case that all KM_SLEEP allocations were GFS_NOFS.
Unfortunately this often resulted in the kernel being unable to
reclaim the ARC, inode, and dentry caches in a timely manor.
The fix was to make KM_SLEEP a GFP_KERNEL allocation in the SPL.

However, this increases the posibility of deadlocking the system
on a zfs write thread.  If a zfs write thread attempts to perform
an allocation it may trigger synchronous reclaim.  This reclaim
may attempt to flush dirty data/inode to disk to free memory.
Unforunately, this write cannot finish because the write thread
which would handle it is holding the previous transaction open.
Deadlock.

To avoid this all allocations in the zfs write thread path must
use KM_PUSHPAGE which prohibits synchronous reclaim for that
thread.  In this way forward progress in ensured.  The risk
with this change is I missed updating an allocation for the
write threads leaving an increased posibility of deadlock.  If
any deadlocks remain they will be unlikely but we'll have to
make sure they all get fixed.
2011-03-22 12:14:55 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
5b63b3eb6f Use cv_timedwait_interruptible in arc
The issue is that cv_timedwait() sleeps uninterruptibly to block signals
and avoid waking up early.  Under Linux this counts against the load
average keeping it artificially high.  This change allows the arc to
sleep interruptibly which mean it may be woken up early due to a signal.

Normally this means some extra care must be taken to handle a potential
signal.  But for the arcs usage of cv_timedwait() there is no harm in
waking up before the timeout expires so no extra handling is required.
2010-12-14 10:06:44 -08:00
Ned Bass
e06be58641 Fix for access beyond end of device error
This commit fixes a sign extension bug affecting l2arc devices.  Extremely
large offsets may be passed down to the low level block device driver on
reads, generating errors similar to

    attempt to access beyond end of device
    sdbi1: rw=14, want=36028797014862705, limit=125026959

The unwanted sign extension occurrs because the function arc_read_nolock()
stores the offset as a daddr_t, a 32-bit signed int type in the Linux kernel.
This offset is then passed to zio_read_phys() as a uint64_t argument, causing
sign extension for values of 0x80000000 or greater.  To avoid this, we store
the offset in a uint64_t.

This change also changes a few daddr_t struct members to uint64_t in the libspl
headers to avoid similar bugs cropping up in the future.  We also add an ASSERT
to __vdev_disk_physio() to check for invalid offsets.

Closes #66
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-11-10 21:29:07 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
c28b227942 Add linux kernel module support
Setup linux kernel module support, this includes:
- zfs context for kernel/user
- kernel module build system integration
- kernel module macros
- kernel module symbol export
- kernel module options

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-31 13:41:58 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
00b46022c6 Add linux kernel memory support
Required kmem/vmem changes

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-31 13:41:57 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
3f50448292 Fix missing newlines
Add missing \n's to dprintf()s

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-31 08:38:46 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
98f72a539c Fix list handling to only use the API
Remove all instances of list handling where the API is not used
and instead list data members are directly accessed.  Doing this
sort of thing is bad for portability.

Additionally, ensure that list_link_init() is called on newly
created list nodes.  This ensures the node is properly initialized
and does not rely on the assumption that zero'ing the list_node_t
via kmem_zalloc() is the same as proper initialization.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-31 08:38:45 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
d4ed667343 Fix gcc uninitialized variable warnings
Gcc -Wall warn: 'uninitialized variable'

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-31 08:38:43 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
1fde1e3720 Fix gcc unused variable warnings
Gcc -Wall warn: 'unused variable'

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-31 08:38:43 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
c65aa5b2b9 Fix gcc missing parenthesis warnings
Gcc -Wall warn: 'missing parenthesis'

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-31 08:38:35 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
e75c13c353 Fix gcc missing case warnings
Gcc ASSERT() missing cases are impossible

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-27 15:34:03 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
2598c0012d Fix gcc missing braces warnings
Resolve compiler warnings concerning missing braces.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-27 15:34:03 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
0bc8fd7884 Fix gcc invalid prototype warnings
Gcc -Wall warn: 'invalid prototype'

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-27 15:34:03 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
b8864a233c Fix gcc cast warnings
Gcc -Wall warn: 'lacks a cast'
Gcc -Wall warn: 'comparison between pointer and integer'

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-27 15:33:32 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
d6320ddb78 Fix gcc c90 compliance warnings
Fix non-c90 compliant code, for the most part these changes
simply deal with where a particular variable is declared.
Under c90 it must alway be done at the very start of a block.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-27 15:28:32 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
572e285762 Update to onnv_147
This is the last official OpenSolaris tag before the public
development tree was closed.
2010-08-26 14:24:34 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
428870ff73 Update core ZFS code from build 121 to build 141. 2010-05-28 13:45:14 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
9babb37438 Rebase master to b117 2009-07-02 15:44:48 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
d164b20935 Rebase master to b108 2009-02-18 12:51:31 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
fb5f0bc833 Rebase master to b105 2009-01-15 13:59:39 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
172bb4bd5e Move the world out of /zfs/ and seperate out module build tree 2008-12-11 11:08:09 -08:00